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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took center stage at the opening of the International CES Jan. 7 to announce that Microsoft would release a beta version of its new Windows 7 operating system this week. In addition, Ballmer announced new partnerships for its Windows Live Essentials product, including a deal with Dell that will allow Microsoft to pre-install Live Search with Dell’s consumer and small business PCs. Earlier in the day, Microsoft also struck a search deal with Verizon Wireless.
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Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to roll out a pair of new Phenom desktop processors for gamers and PC enthusiasts at the 2009 CES expo. The new Phenom II X4 processors are the first 45-nanometer chips AMD has offered for desktops. The Phenom II X4 processors are also the first AMD desktop processors to reach a 3GHz clock speed. The two Phenom II processors are part of AMD’s new “Dragon” platform for gaming PCs and high-end consumer desktops. The Dragon platform also includes ATI Radeon graphics and a new family of AMD chip sets.
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The head of Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services resigns, disclosing that profits had been falsely inflated for years and sending its shares plunging nearly 80 percent. India's biggest corporate scandal in memory threatens future foreign investment and casts a cloud over growth in its once-booming outsourcing sector. The news sends Indian equity markets into a tailspin.
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Microchip maker Intel issues its second revenue warning on the fourth quarter, saying demand for desktops and notebooks was even worse than it feared and sparking wide concerns about tech companies.
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EMC, the world's largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, says it will trim about 2,400 jobs or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months.
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Following Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Storm entry into the U.S. smartphone market, T-Mobile's BlackBerry Curve 8900 is the thinnest and lightest QWERTY device of the burgeoning BlackBerry line of smartphones. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 expands on the features and functionality found in the original BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Bold.
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Market research firm Pike & Fischer predicts the current economic conditions will slow U.S. broadband growth by 12 percent in 2009. Cable companies, the researchers say, will grab most of the growth to be had since despite telcos AT&T and Verizon's fiber rollouts most of their potential customers are still covered only by slower DSL services. President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus package, though, could change those predictions.
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Miami Dade College CIO Karl Herleman lists his top 5 current priorities as an IT decision maker, including virtualizing everything, selling MDC's Technology Strategic Plan and using the cloud to enable shared services.
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Salesforce.com's SAAS CRM apps went down Jan. 6 in a nearly 40-minute outage that spurred a tweeting rage on Twitter. Salesforce.com, which hosts CRM and other enterprise apps over the Internet for thousands of companies, says the problem thwarted over 177 million transactions in Europe, Asia and North America. Outages are common among cloud computing service providers, and Salesforce.com is joining Google in that unfortunate arena.
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Sun continues to invest in its cloud computing strategy. A small European company automates the deployment and management of public and private clouds and will become part of Sun's new Cloud Computing business unit.
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has told members of the Barack Obama transition team that a $30 billion government investment in the IT industry could lead to the creation of more than 900,000 jobs in areas such as broadband access, health care IT and upgrading the electrical grid.
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CEO Gerald Quindlen blames "a deteriorating retail environment" for its sales woes. The company also withdraws its fiscal year 2009 growth targets for sales and operating income and will lay off about 1,400 of its 9,400 full-time employees.
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Apple's Macworld Conference & Expo keynote kicks off without CEO Steve Jobs. Instead, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, gives the address. Coming in to the event, rumors abounded about red iPhones, upgraded iMacs and a new Mac Mini. But Schiller unveils 2009 versions of iLife and iWork, the new iWork.com service, a massively upgraded 17-inch MacBook Pro, and conversion of the iTunes Store to all DRM-free tracks.
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
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The new SSD can process IOPS (input/output per second) more than 10 times faster than the fastest 15K-rpm SAS disk drive available for transactional data workloads, Samsung said. It features a random read speed of 25K and a random write speed of 6K.
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VMware application virtualization offering ThinApp 4 reduces application conflict and speeds the cycle of application deployment while boasting lower overhead than full-blown desktop virtualization approaches. However, VMware's maiden app virtualization voyage hits some stormy patches.
Network Authority and Strategic Technology Analytics modeled what a midsize organization might face in migrating its switching infrastructure.
Organizations planning to implement 802.11n should consider the impact on their Ethernet switching architecture.
Cisco's newly minted Catalyst 4900M can help network engineers navigate the transition to 10G by offering a mixture of fixed and swappable, card-based ports.
With the popularity of Apple products on the rise, IT departments must
start thinking differently about their management processes.
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